[CQ-Contest] WW SSB - the corruptive influence of packet

[Mark Bailey]

Shadow12TFS at wmconnect.com wrote:

> Maybe we should get rid of the assisted catagory altogether.

You mean making all of the single operators who use packet
enter multi-operator categories, right?  This was the
way it was before "assisted".

> It's not like the old days when the majority of the players had no
> computer or web/packet access. These days, you would be hard pressed
> to find many shacks without some rudimentary way of accessing packet
> or the web. Maybe then there will be so many spots that it will not
> cause unmanagble pileups so often.

Maybe that isn't what you meant. The unmanageable pileups tend
to be on the rarer multipliers or new stations on Sunday.
The logging programs automatically filter the incoming spots,
so increasing the number of spots won't help much.

At M/M's we're constantly tuning the bands and there aren't usually
a huge number of stations CQ'ing that haven't been spotted.

> There will be those that argue "What about the areas of the world
> where ops lack the ability to use the web as they choose"? What about
> them?

They enter single-operator categories.  :-)

73,

Mark, KD4D